85) The intellectual impact of this new kalam, as manifested about two centuries later in al-Iji and al-Taftazani, was also felt by medieval Jewish thinkers86 and the thinkers, philosophers, and scientists of the European Renaissance and Enlightenment who shared with the mutakallimun "a determined rejection of Aristotelism and a preference for experimentation with various forms of atomism, as well as the belief in an omnipotent and free creator.

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